Ft. Bragg/Pope green ramp disaster...

A team leader at some point in my life was a blackhat at jumpmaster school when it was on greenramp. He told us of that day and how it went down from a first responder pov.

Crazy as hell
 
JBoyette said:
A team leader at some point in my life was a blackhat at jumpmaster school when it was on greenramp. He told us of that day and how it went down from a first responder pov.

Crazy as hell
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I was in the reserve then, and had been back from a school for all of two days, working my part time job with Carolina Air Care. We flew down to pick up a couple of the patients, all burned to hell. Was a crazy day, you are right. There were three or four Blackhawks orbiting UNC waiting to land to offload patients.
 
Chuckman said:
I was in the reserve then, and had been back from a school for all of two days, working my part time job with Carolina Air Care. We flew down to pick up a couple of the patients, all burned to hell. Was a crazy day, you are right. There were three or four Blackhawks orbiting UNC waiting to land to offload patients.
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Thats sad to think about.

My mother inlaw worked at Duke for 30 + years and she tells stories of the medavac's coming in over the years. She always thought of how crazy it was that lifeflight was one type of landing and the military birds came in with "a purpose" from her words. LOL
 
I had one of the victims in the trauma unit at Duke. When the Army came to transfer the patient a day later to Texas, it was a study in perfection the way they packaged the patient with minimal effort and left
 
JBoyette said:
Thats sad to think about.

My mother inlaw worked at Duke for 30 + years and she tells stories of the medavac's coming in over the years. She always thought of how crazy it was that lifeflight was one type of landing and the military birds came in with "a purpose" from her words. LOL
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Military helo's are so much bigger and therefore have such bigger engines. The CH-46/47 could not land on the roof pad at UNC (the 46 can on the roof at Duke but the 47 cannot), and the wash would blow everything to hell and back. The BK-117/EC-145 that UNC and Duke have used are so much smaller and....less impressive.

In this event, the pad at UNC was still on the ground in front of the hospital. I can still recall the shock of peoples' faces when we and the Army wheeled charcoal bricks into the ED.
 
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I posted this a few years ago...

I was in building 900, Base Ops, that day (100 yards from the 141 and 30 yards from the troopers doing pre-jump).

Big boom and impact. I walked through the pre-jump area and saw the carnage. Troopers burned, rucks and T-10s on fire, F16 parts. Awful.

I rendered a bit of assistance until I was ordered to leave the area but honestly there was not much I could do. It was an intense scene. I can still see it...
 
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